Exodus 17:16

LORD. Jah. See App-4.

hath sworn. The margins of Authorized Version and Revised Version show the perplexity caused by the Ellipsis. of the verb. "Surely the hand [lifted up] upon the banner of Jah [is to swear]: for the war of Jehovah against Amalek is to be from generation to generation". So it was. It was carried on by Ehud (Judges 3:13), Barak (Judges 5:14), Gideon (Judges 6:3; Judges 7:12), Saul (1 Samuel 15:2, Compare Exodus 17:11), Samuel (1 Samuel 15:32; 1 Samuel 15:33), David (1 Samuel 27:8; 1 Samuel 30:1; 1 Samuel 30:17; 2 Samuel 8:12), Simeonites (1 Chronicles 4:42; 1 Chronicles 4:43), and Mordecai (Esther 3:1; Esther 9:7).